Car-coupling



P. MGENTEB.

GAR GOUPLING.

(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 9, 1890.

lo Suba/nte@ @M @SMA C'rozucif AUNITED STATES P/ATENT OFFCE PATRICK MCEN'IEE, OF MONTGOMERY, MINNESOTA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,019, dated September 9, 1890.

Application iiled December 2, 1889. Serial No.332,213. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, PATRICK MCENTEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montgomery, in the county of Le Sueur and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to coupling devices provided with ordinary -links and pins; and the object of the invention is to provide efficient means to enable the coupling and nncoupling to be done from the sides or tops of cars.

My improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--b Figure 1 represents an end view of a car provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the position of the pin and operating parts for making a coupling, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modified construction of the operative parts.

In said drawings, 1 represents a freightcar, 2 the draw-head, and 3 the coupling-pin.

4 is a rod held in horizontal position on the end of the car by staples 5 to permit the rod to turn and also allow it slight play toward and from the car. The middle portion of the rod 4 is twisted, as shown at 6, and the outer portion of the twist is widened into a loop 7. This loop portion is bent downward and inward, forming an arc, and at the angle formed by the bending down of the loop portion there is provided an eye 8 for a chain. To the loop 8 is attached the upper end of a chain 9, the lower end of which is connected to a yoke 10. The yoke is connected by means of hooks 11, entered in holes in ears 12 on a plate 13, that has an opening to receive the coupling-pin and support it by its shoulder. The pin can be readily withdrawn from the plate 13 when the yoke 10 is turned down to horizontal position. The ends of the rod 4 project beyond the sides of the car and are bent to form cranks 14, by means of which the rod can be rocked. At one side of the middle the rocking rod is twisted to form an arm 15, having a loop 16at its end, Ato which a vertical rod 17 is connected by an eye 18, and the rod extends to the top of the car and is provided with a handle 19, by means of which it can belifted to rock the rod 4. Thus the rocking rod 4 may be given a partial rotation to raise the lateral portion to which the chain is attached, and will return to initial position by gravity. The parts are so arranged that lwhen the pin is seated `the chain 9 will be held in substantially vertical position, and when pulledupon will readily start the pin. The loop 7, on which the chain has its bearing after the upward movement has been begun, is curved inward to a suitable arc or angle to serve to draw the head of the pin toward the car, as shown in Fig. 3, so that when the upward movement has ceased the pin will stand at an inclination about as shown in that figure.

In the draw-head 2 at the side of the pinhole 20 is provided a seat 21, on which the lower end of the pin will rest and be supported when the rocking rod has been returned to its normal position. The pin is then in position to be readily thrown into the pin-hole to make a coupling by the jar produced by the striking of the draw-head by the draw-head of a second car.

In the form of devices shown in Fig. 4 the chain 9, instead of passing outside the loop 7, is passed through the loop and attached to the eye at the upper angle, as in the other form, and thus in the earlier portion of the lift the chain will have a direct upward pull without a lateral bearing until it engages the lower portion of the loop. The lower end of the chain is connected to an angle-iron frame 22, the lower portion of which has an opening suitable for engaging the shouldered portion of the head of the pin to lift it.

Having described my invention, what I claim isv 1. In a car-coupling, a rocking rod twisted and bent to form a curved arm adapted to iirst draw a pin vertically and then tilt its head toward the car, in combination with a chain, a coupling-pin, and a draw-head having n shouldered opening adapted to telnpothe chain, and another portion twisted to form rarily support; the pin in its inclined position, mi arm for connecting :i lifting-rod, snbsmn- 1o for the purpose se forth. tizilly as set forth.

2. In a car-Cou ing, the combination, with n y l 5 a draw-head, a, ocipling-pin, and a chain, of I AlRICIX NGENIER' a rocking rod for operating Jshe pin, having NVitnesses: its middle portion twisted and bent to form JOI-IN GRIEVE, a suitable connection and bearing-surface for ADAM SEALS. 

